Expedition 405 of the International Ocean Discovery Programme embarked on a mission to the Japan Trench, where scientists drilled into a fault zone involved in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The goal was ...

Expedition 405 drilled into Japan Trench fault, site of 2011 quake, collecting cores and data to learn how massive earthquakes and tsunamis are triggered.

On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku mega-earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami. At ...

A team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of Earth's crust in Japan and neighboring regions. The so-called same-dip double subduction ...

In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...

A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth's crust ...

A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth’s crust in Japan and neighboring regions: The so-called ...

Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

About three weeks ago, on July 30, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Combined, this equated to nearly 500,000 square miles of U.S. waters closed to commercial fishing, with only recreational ...

A recently discovered undersea metropolis in the Pacific Ocean has stunned scientists with its scale, unique structure, and ...